Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-08-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
fFrum Oar regulat eOrrespondsnt.l J


Frum our regular eorrespohdsntl
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18th, 1887.
IEx-Congressman Brady, one of the Re
nnbIican leaders of Virginia, was in the
CAPITAL day or two since, and being at
skies and sevens with little Billy Ma
hone, the Republican boss of that State,
Mr.. Brady gently submitted to an inter-
view in which he gives some interesting
information regarding the political sit
uatIon in the Old Dominion. he says
that Malone in his mad desire to make
every other interest sub5ervient to his
ambition to return to the United States
Senate, has alienated all ofhis old Lieu
tenants, including such men as
Senator Riddleberger, Ex-Governor
Cameron and two Of the Republican
ongressmen-elect-so that only listless
apathy and egregious blunders on the
part of the Democrats can secure Ma
homes return to power from The Moth-
er of Presidents.
That peice of monumental foily
and pet Republican measure, the
Blair Educational Bill, has been sat up
on in the Committee on Federal At
fairs in the New Hampshire House OF
Representatives by a vote OF seven to
three. was laid on the table resolutions
endorsing the bill. And this from
cranky Senator Blair's own State par
tvI ttThat was the most unkind cut Of
aIp,-worse by far than the Democrats
Secretary Fairchild, q few days since,
dismissed q pair of Republican clerks
for consuming portion of their valu-
able time during office hours in abusing
the Democratic party; one of them be-
inc brother of the brass s-throated G. A.
r howler, Gen. Grosvenor, Congress-
man from Ohio. The Secretary well
saws that he thinks it too good in the
Administration to keep Republicans in
their places, but, that indecent criti-
o;sno n fine Democracy should not be
nermitted. The sentiment Of the able
and nopular young Secretary of the
Treasury will find ready echo in the
hearts of thousands of Democrats, with
the wish that there We're more Fair
childish the Cabinet.
Secretary whitney is pushing for
ward with the earDestness and enthu-
siasm characteristic for him, his efforts
to re-habiliate the American Navy,
having Just awarded the contract for
the building of two gunboats and three
cruisers, after the most approved de-
signs, and with such iron-clad test as
to speed and capacity that full COM
pliance with these conditions is guar
anteed. Another commendable action
of the Secretary is his continued refus-
al to furnish any funds for the repair
of rotten hulks like the Monocracy that
were inherited from the late Republi-
can regime. -, -
Two Republican chief clerks to the
Interior Department have resigned dur
ing the present Administrations
successor of the last one not yet having
been chosen. trust Secretary Lamar
will be able to find some good and
worthy Democrat for the position. 1t
ID q fact, perhaps not generally known,
thatwith a single exception, every chief
clerk ofa Department under President
Cleyeland's Administration, Is hold
over Republican, although those places
are not under civil-service rules. Why
this is thus, have, as yet, been unable
to discover; but, it overcomes me like a
summer cloud.
In the Washington Police Court the
preliminary trial of the Crawford forni-
cation case, which l have heretofore
still drags it slow length
along like aslimy serpent, owing to the
fact that 1t must give each day to the
regular routine of cases. There was a
most exciting scene in this scandalous
case; one of the defendants counsel told
The Judge that the United States Dis
trict Attorney had said to the two asso-
ciate counsels for the defense, that the
Judge would deside the case in the Gov
ernment's favor, regardless alike of ar
I gument and evidence-that, in fact, he
had pre-judged the case; this statement
The Judge had reduced to writing, and
~ the venerable Jurist read the charge
inopen Court, his anger and passion
WIS SO overpowering that he shook like
a. aspen leaf, as he denounced the ar
raignment ''as a false aspersion upon
my character Then, the District At
torney and opposing counsel had an
unseeming wrangle-the former affirm
ingand the latter denying. fully agree
with one of the defendants lawyers,
who, in a towering rage, declared that
the way the case was being tried was
"a disgrace and an outrage on all con-
cerned in it,"